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January 31, 2015News ClipAmazon Headwaters Keystone successfully protected after 15 years of community efforts

Congratulations, Lane County citizens!

After more than 15 years of concerted community advocacy, we've finally succeeded in protecting the key connecting piece between the Amazon Greenway that runs through town in Eugene, and the Amazon Creek Headwaters rising high on the flanks of Spencer Butte.

On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at at 7:30pm, come on down if you can, to Harris Hall in the Lane County building, to tell the Eugene City Council if you're for or against the needless, hugely expensive, and destructive UGB expansions planned for Russell Creek near LCC, off Bailey Hill Road in southwest Eugene, and in the farmland by Clear Lake Road and the Eugene airport.

The East Lane District county commissioner’s primary election race in May was won by nine votes. With only 33 percent of registered voters casting ballots, fewer than 17 percent of the district’s voters re-elected Faye Stewart to the seat. More than 16 percent voted for someone else — most of them for Kevin Matthews.

If Stewart had received nine fewer votes, Matthews’ name would also be on the Nov. 4 general election ballot.

October 7, 2014News ClipSee the Stewart hit piece, mailed to Republicans in May, that the media has never covered!

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Dexter, Oregon

In a little-known chapter of the May 2014 primary election story, just as ballots were in the hands of East Lane County voters, an organized group of hard right-wing Stewart supporters mailed a mendacious hit piece to tens of thousands of Republicans in the district.